Joel Osteen Quotes

If you will keep being your best right where you are, you will come into more favor, promotion and opportunity than you ever imagined.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

I don't focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing, then I don't worry about it.

I don't go down the road of condemning.

We can all control our own destiny. And I think sometimes it's a copout to say, "Well, it's this person's fault or another person's fault."

Program your mind with what God says about you and a transformation will take place.

When you go through difficult times...recognize that God is refining you, knocking off some of your rough edges.

Your best days are still out in front of you

I just wanted to get the message that God had put into my heart into another form, because I knew the print media would reach a different group of people.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

True love turns words and feelings into actions.

Life is short. You can't afford to put off what God has put in your heart. You don't have time to live with things holding you back.

God wants to increase you financially, by giving you promotions, fresh ideas and creativity

Other people's opinions do not determine your potential.

If they left you, you didn't need them. If they walked away, they weren't part of your DESTINY.

Don't let where you are be an excuse not to grow.

It's always darkest before the dawn. The bigger your challenge, the closer you are to your victory.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

Start believing bigger, dreaming bigger & expecting bigger.

God can make greatness out of a great mess

Send your life to a whole new level! Zip up the negative words and start speaking faith and victory into your future.

Faith is all about trusting God even when you don't understand His plan.

The greater the giving, the greater the living.

You control the doorway to your mind.

You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

There's plenty about God that I don't understand and can't explain. But I come back to my core belief that God is good, that He's for us.

You can take pride in yourself without comparing yourself to anybody else. If you run your race and be the best that you can be, then you can feel good about yourself.

Slow down and enjoy the journey right now. Take time for the people in your life. They won't always be there.

Faith doesn't always instantly deliver you, but it always carries you through.

But I want to motivate. I wanna motivate every person to leave here to be a better father, a better husband, to break addictions to come up higher in their walk with the Lord.

You only have so much emotional energy each day. Don't fight battles that don't matter.

We don't have to talk about faith and family at dinner-we just show it.

That's it. I'm going to start making the right choices.

I just think that only God will judge a person's heart.

You need to take pride in what God has given you.

I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

It's amazing how people will give when you don't ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

It's in the difficult times that we're growing and you can't just rebuke everything hard. We've got to endure it and fight the good fight of faith and pass the test.

To me, it's OK to have differences. But we don't have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that's where sometimes we get so passionate that we - you know, it turns into anger.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

You can become all God created you to be even if you've had difficulties, even if you weren't born into a good, loving family, God still has a plan for your life.

No bad break, no disappointment, no accident can shorten one second of my divine destiny.

He is still in control. He still has you in the palm of His hand.

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.